Thu Nov 06
I just published the latest stable release of the Modus themes. The change log entry is reproduced further below. For any questions, you are welcome to contact me. I will now work to apply these same changes to emacs.git, so please wait a little longer for the updates to trickle down to you. Package name (GNU ELPA):...
I picked up a pen, grabbed my notebook and wrote. I just wrote for the sake of writing by hand. I was in the office yesterday and had a rare few minutes of down time, inbox zero, so why not? I must have written 1,000 words plus; I have not counted. And it bloody hurt! What follows is the edited transcription of my...
Check out As in guillotine... for more. "The only thing that loves company more than misery is complicity." Five Things for November 6, 2025 Five Things: November 6, 2025, by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, was originally posted on As in guillotine....
Catalog of Custom 3D Prints | Peter LyonsStaff Engineer, Back EndPeter LyonsPeter LyonsPeter made a catalog of his 3D prints. He's heavily on the side of functional 3D printing (as opposed to artistic or monetizable prints) which is something I appreciate. I got a printer
Split a jj revision based on its history 2025-11-07 Has this ever happened to you? You’re working on a change: # hello.md aaa You make a new change: # hello.md aaabbb But you forgot to jj new! Thus, you find yourself with a change that is really two changes. If the two changes touched separate lines you could get...
Nota: Hace meses escribí y publiqué este artículo sólo en inglés, pero me he decidido a traducirlo ya que el contenido puede seguir siendo de utilidad para futuras versiones del sistema y/o para problemas similares. Tras actualizar FreeBSD 14.1 a la versión 14.2 algunas personas sufrimos algunos problemas debido a...
Extrayendo información de Moodle Por razones que no vienen al caso, este curso he necesitado recabar información sobre la estructura interna de un CMS Moodle. Este gestor de contenidos, para quien no lo conozca es muy usado en docencia para la gestión de curso online, aulas virtuales, gestión de calificaciones, etc....
Getting a proper dark theme for the e-mail home screen widget is worth spending hours building the app from source. No, really it is.
For years, whenever someone asked me what I do, I described my projects and activities, like “I worked on a cloud migration, reduced technical debt, refactored systems to be cloud-native, designed environments for scalability, cost effectiveness and security, …”. But I could never express in a TL;DR what I really...
Earlier this month my partner asked me something along the lines of: "What subconscious behaviors or impulses of yours do you think come from being raised under capitalism? And are you trying to combat any of them?" It sparked a really interesting conversation about both our consumerist tendences and also a topic...
Etwas über das Ende der Horde im Gegenwind (Spoiler!) … In einer Bibliothek findet Sov zwei Sätze, die sein Leben verändern. Das erste Kapitel von Baudrillards "Amerika" endet (nach einer Reflexion über die Bewegung durch den Raum oder die Wüste) mit einem dieser Sätze: Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your...
October 2025. Leicester. Our 36 hours in Leicester concluded with a late lunch in another historic pub, the venue for local CAMRA’s branch meeting that very evening. Even my remarkable powers of persuasion weren’t enough to convince Mrs RM to stay and convince CAMRA to ban halves put the Cherry Tree in the GBG. The…...
La guerre que mènent les robots ascientifiques contre la solitude intellectuelle On entend souvent que l’IA a des avantages et des inconvénients, mais que c’est un changement de paradigme, qu’il faut l’accepter. Qu’on ne peut pas « refuser en bloc ». Pourtant, le refus en bloc a bien eu lieu avec, par exemple, les...
Percolating on design At the end of every year I start to feel it. 2024 ended on a tumultuous note. I dive into introspection, combing over the last year in search of pattern and meaning. I gathered what I found at the bottom of the ocean floor, coming up for air with the knowledge that 2025 would be marked by...
My friend the Emily Dickinson maven sends me many a Dickinson gem that I've never come across before (I came late to her poetry). One of the latest was this November poem, with its startling final image – who but Emily Dickinson could have come up with that?The Day grew small, surrounded tightBy early, stooping...
读书笔记 核心观点总结 情感的文化建构性 情感非普遍性：人们的情感并非都相同，认为他人情感和自己的相同往往源于投射 文化依赖性：情感如同衣着、语言和饮食习惯一样，高度依赖于文化背景 社会实践：情感更接近关系行为，而非纯粹的心理状态 核心概念对比 「我的」情感 vs 「我们的」情感 美式情感模式（MINE emotions） 向内关注个人感受（Feeling good） 强调独立性和个人控制 价值观：成功、掌控、选择 目标：培养独立自信的个体 东亚情感模式（OURS emotions） 向外关注关系和谐 通过关系行为表达关爱 重视集体需求和社会位置 目标：培养敏感体贴的个体 具体文化情感案例 日本文化中的典型情感 甘え...
I love the chaos of this photo. So much noise but also an imperfect balance. Read More
I have spent a chunk of time in therapy. Often, when trying to explain my thought processes, I gravitate towards metaphors that have their roots in a domain in which I am more comfortable: physics & maths & earth science. This means I have found myself explaining the inverse-square law, or the geologic principle of...
The solution to setting up AmberElec on my Anbernic RG351V was found in the GitHub issues of a different alternative firmware for the device.
Was nominated to chime in on this topic by Weylan. Have been going back in history for older tomes. Here they are: Crosshairs, by James Patterson. Nice, quick read for a few hours when you want to check out of reality. Not a high suspense book. Was a pretty clean read, but did it have to include profanity in the...
Plant identification tools are still in their infancy so I take their suggestions with a grain of salt. (Sometimes I’ll point my camera at a leaf and will get different answers each time.) Whether or not this fine big ol’ golden leaf is or is not a Southern catalpa (Wikipedia) matters little in the scheme of...
A recent tweet from a former AI companion company founder has been making rounds, describing how their product—an AI boyfriend named “Sam”—unexpectedly attracted more female users than their original AI girlfriend offerings. The thread offers a rare insider perspective on the mechanics of digital intimacy, detailing...
📷 Photographed with a Fujifilm X-T5 + XF150-600mmF5.6-8 R LM OIS WR 🎞️ 274 mm focal length – 1/420″ at f/7.1 – ISO 2500 📍 Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, United States – Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) land
This is a real conversation I had with a close but distant friend recently. I unfortunately can't remember the specifics of some of her more peculiar accusations. Friend: Hey, what are you doing? Me: Oh, nothing. I'm just at the gym. How are you? Sorry I missed your call yesterday. Friend: It's fine. I haven't heard...
I did a little digital housekeeping today. On my iPhone and MacBook Pro, I went through my apps and deleted the extras — keeping just one for each task. I also got rid of anything I never use. If I ever miss something, I can always add it back. Since I do most of my work on my iPhone and MacBook, I’ve turned my iPad...
As of November 5th, 2025, Material for MkDocs is now in maintenance mode, with committed support for the next 12 months. At the same time a new static site generator (SSG) has been brought to live, with a faster build engine and maximum compatibility with MkDocs (for now), and built with the same open source […]
Today I tried to complete a "simple" lawn irrigation repair for my brother. I'm not a very "handy" person, but I was confident this was within the scope of my abilities. I was wrong. After three trips to the hardware store, and several hours, I completed the job. The final product looked a bit like what you would...
I’ve been enjoying STAR TREK: VOYAGER quite a bit over the past week or so I’ve been watching it, but I think this episode—the tenth of season 1—is my current favorite. In it, the crew find themselves welcomed by the Sikarians, a notoriously hospitable people that have a law against providing outsiders with...
When I was a kid, my mom always insisted on “cleaning” out my ear canals with cotton swabs, usually right after I bathed, and this ended up establishing a bad habit of using cotton swabs on my ears every morning after I shower. I am well aware of the many problems this can cause but I never feel like I’m quite done...
Philip A. Ebert, currently professor of law and philosophy at the University of Stirling, has accepted an offer from the University of Salzburg, where he will be professor of theoretical philosophy. Professor Ebert works on various topics in epistemology (especially risk and rationality), early analytic philosophy...
I’ve finished my reread of Ready Player One, which was this month’s book of the month for The Bookies, so I’ve moved onto another book on my list. I’m still very much starting The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and I’m actually kind of getting into it. I’ve blatantly ignored all the reviews that are...
7:02 am (3 am'sh Mickey snoring) 7:04 am (4 am'sh Mickey laying in my arms) 7:05 am (5 am'sh Mickey on his back arms up and or praying mantis deferment position come hither looks love in his eyes want...
I’m more of a studio kind of music aficionado, but there are a few outstanding live albums I enjoy, in particular because they include at least a song that, in my opinion, had its best version ever in front of a live audience; here’s the list of those live albums I love, including the songs in question.
Thank god October is over. Usually I really like it - the trees are turning all kinds of beautiful colours, the leaves are falling, the wind is blowing the leaves around etc. But this October was terrible, because I was sick for most of it. A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was excited to go to the Retro Computer...
One thing about Amsterdam never ceased to amaze me, even though I knew the reasons and had read about it and had been told it dozens of times, but this fact that the houses weren’t straight ahead won me over, every time. Pure fascination. Camera iPhone 15 Pro Data 20/08/2025 Location Amsterdam, Nederland ✱ Thanks...
New pixel art: a parody of the Got milk? campaign, except giving it a vegan angle.
Updates from the bridge: Just got back from a great vacation in the mountains with my family! Wildlife sighting score: 6x 🐻 12x 🦃 9x 🦌 1x 🦉 Been busting my tail getting Alcove ready for release. If you're interested in a privacy RSS reader and want to help test it let me know! I started going down the analog media...
Oh, how could he have forgotten that love, when it arrives, arrives always twinned to its destructive force, as inevitably as God and devil, life and death, home and the leaving of it; that information collected during sweeter moments will be turned to ammunition and dispelled during war; that what is innocent in...
The garden at Murin-an (1896), the former private residence of Yamagata Aritomo, one of Japan's leading statesmen at the turn of the 20th Century. 無鄰菴の庭園（1896年）は、明治・大正時代の日本を代表する政治家、山縣有朋の旧私邸であった。
The Arduboy is a rare example of an open source video game console. The company just announced that it is releasing a new model in December 2025 with USB-C and link cable (how nostalgic!) support. I find this intriguing. However, I bought an Arduboy about a year ago and have not really used it yet. […]
Es gibt viele Optionen, die eine Lösung können sein. Käfer eins hatte z.b. heute nicht gut geschlafen, weil er war jetzt alt; Heute hatte Käfer zwei einen geschmackvollen Krümel an dem Bodnen gefunden, trotzdem ist Käfer zwei natürlich den trauriger Käfer. Es soll klar sein, aber alles ist nie so einfach. Was klingt...
“Our public libraries need attention; here’s why we should care” by Madhumita Rajan An article filled with facts that makes one feel very hopeless, but also gives some motivation to do something about it. “I’m a Librarian, Therapist, Personal Assistant, and First Responder. Moments Like This Make It All Worth It.”...